Motivational Quotes

Politics

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Politics

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy